Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.

Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.